CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1433

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-12-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Cherokee web server before 0.2.7 does not properly drop root privileges after binding to port 80, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges via other vulnerabilities.

Affected configurations

• cherokee cherokee httpd 0.1 • cherokee cherokee httpd 0.1.5 • cherokee cherokee httpd 0.1.6 • cherokee cherokee httpd 0.2 • cherokee cherokee httpd 0.2.5 • cherokee cherokee httpd 0.2.6

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